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>>12452909
Peterson only came up to face the intellectual challenge of white male collectivism because of the niilism inherent in acceptance of oneself as a white male. To say that 'I am white and male and that's ok' is about as bland a statement as "well, why shouldn't I burn my house down just as soon as leave it standing?" ~ it requires the subject to identify no longer as the subject but as the class of people who have for so long said they were the only subjects and thereby had everyone else in a position of having to prove their own subjection to that condition.

>>12455458
Part of reading, for me, is that my mind adopts the characters and acts as if I were they. As if each person in a tale were assigned a neuron and for a moment I would do what they do, feel how they feel. So while the reader is rarely themselves a character, it acts like a parable: you learn something about yourself because you enact the movements of the holons given.
There are some works which are addressed as messages to others as if individuals. I think Aminom succeeds in this in his biopic: "I address you now". Of course, it has to be done with confidence.